{"id":11903,"date":"2011-01-26T19:21:23","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T03:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/01\/26\/iran-dismisses-guardiola-link\/"},"modified":"2011-01-26T19:21:23","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T03:21:23","slug":"iran-dismisses-guardiola-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/01\/26\/iran-dismisses-guardiola-link\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran dismisses Guardiola link"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"iriff\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/iriff.jpg\" height=\"250\" width=\"215\" \/>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran Football Federation (IFF) denied the reports that they plan to recruit Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola as the coach of Iran.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>IFF is going to find a replacement for Afshin Ghotbi whose contract expires after the 2011 AFC Asian Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Director of foreign relations of IFF Abbas Torabian said, \u201cI was invited to Barcelona club but we had no negotiations with their coach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI talked to Mr. Sandro Rosell president of Barcelona about a friendly match with Catalonia football team,\u201d Torabian added.<\/p>\n<p>Mustafa Denizli is among the candidates to take charge of the Iranian football team, according to the Iran&#8217;s media.<\/p>\n<p>Swede Sven-G\u00f6ran Eriksson, Brazilian Zico and Argentine legend Diego Maradona have previously been among the candidates for the post.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Ghotbi joined Japanese Shimizu S-Pulse after Iran\u2019s elimination from the Asian Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran Football Federation (IFF) denied the reports that they plan to recruit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":4039,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}